Factoid: Did you know that the original Pussyman was shot at porn director Marc Schaffel’s house? Read the following:
Los Angeles- Michael Jackson owes an ex-business partner millions in unpaid producing fees, cash advances and loans the pop star used to buy the support of some of his most famous friends, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.
The former partner, Marc Schaffel, claims he lent Jackson more than $8 million, including $1 million that Jackson paid Marlon Brando to appear at two Madison Square Garden concerts and in a Jackson music video.
Schaffel said another $600,000 went to buy Elizabeth Taylor a piece of jewelry she chose in return for her permission to use footage of her in a positive documentary on Jackson.
Schaffel says the embattled King of Pop failed to pay back more than $2.2 million of the advances.
Another loan in the court papers was $500,000 Jackson wanted after Sept. 11, 2001, in case he needed to take shelter underground.
Schaffel claims in the suit – which seeks more than $3 million – that he was instrumental in making a pair of Fox TV specials for Jackson to rebut a controversial documentary by British journalist Martin Bashir.
Bashir’s documentary – aired on ABC and British television in February 2003 – featured the young cancer survivor now at the center of child-molestation charges against Jackson.
Schaffel claims the singer’s need to borrow money “greatly accelerated when Jackson’s increasingly more frequent excessive use of drugs and alcohol impelled him into irrational demands for large amounts of money and extravagant possessions.”
He said Jacko had him do the rebuttal special that aired on Fox, which included Taylor. Schaffel also put together Jackson’s charity single, “What More Can I Give,” for Sept. 11 victims, but made it after he admitted he had produced and directed dozens of gay porn videos.
